Quotes about Beginnings

Surely the creatures of the fifth day of Creation accepted those of the sixth with equanimity, as though they had always been there. Eternity is always present in the animal mind; only men deal in beginnings and ends. It is probably lucky for man that he was created last. He would have got too excited and upset over all the change.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

I love watches, for sure. The watch I love the most is Richard Mille because it's part of something that started from zero.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.